Sunday Reflection

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  Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Wisdom of God

  Oct 14, 2018

  It was really horrible. Twelve year old Tommy was bawled out by his little league coach. He was mocked in front of his teammates.

  
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  Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: For you, the married

  Oct 05, 2018

  Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: For you, the married

  
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  Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Psychic Surgery?

  Sep 30, 2018

  If today's Gospel reading seems to join very diverse and disconnected sayings, they may come together like this: we are challenged to be inclusive with regard to people we perceive as encroaching “outsiders” (be brother to the other; sister to the visitor).

  
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  Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time: From jealousy to wisdom

  Sep 23, 2018

  Today’s readings confront these human maladies. The first reading presents wicked men plotting the destruction of the Just One. They can’t stand the fact that he is so close to God. They are jealous, just like Cain was jealous of his brother Abel’s relationship with God.

  
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  Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The happiest place on Earth

  Sep 14, 2018

  Hundreds of thousands of people travel to Florida every year to visit a place that calls itself the happiest place on earth. Yes, that’s right, they come here to see Mickey Mouse, and Donald Duck and a whole lot of Goofies at Disney World.

  
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  Twenty-third Sunday of Ordinary Time: He Touches Us

  Sep 09, 2018

  He took him away from the crowd. He touched his ears and his mouth and said, “Be open”. And the man left singing the praises of God to the world.

  
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  Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time: Clean hands, dirty hands

  Sep 02, 2018

  Dirt is matter out of place. A farmer does not call the fertile soil that nurtures her soybean crop “dirt.” But that same soil tracked by kids across the kitchen linoleum is definitely dirt, decidedly matter out of place. That simple fact reminds us that human preoccupation with purity and cleanliness is not so much about hygiene as it is about creating a sense of order.

  
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  Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time: Good News, tough choices

  Aug 26, 2018

  Jesus’ talk of eating his body and drinking his blood, John says, was a turnoff for “many of his disciples.” “This saying is hard,” they said. “Who can accept it?” Even when Jesus makes it clear that he was not inviting them to cannibalism, he does not back off from demanding the total commitment of faith.

  
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  Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time: Tangible

  Aug 19, 2018

  Sally and Sam Jones made a parenting mistake that they deeply regret. They are really good parents, but even good parents make an error in judgment.

  
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  Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time: On murmuring

  Aug 12, 2018

  Today’s Gospel reading, the third of the five Sundays from the Sixth chapter of the Gospel of John, begins with the Jews murmuring.